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Publication details: Elkin Mathews,1909,

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The copy of Danish-born New Zealand poet, later an ethnologist and librarian specialising in Maori culture, Johannes Carl Andersen; his early work adopted some of the ballad-forms - villanelles, rondels, etc. - which Pound had brought back into fashion.A thousand sets of sheets were printed; around half were later bound up with Pound's volume 'Exultations'

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1909, pp. 60, foolscap 8vo, original dark grey boards, lettered in gilt to upper board and backstrip, the first issue with title-lettering to backstrip measuring 2cm, the backstrip slightly pushed at ends, bottom corner of upper board with a touch of wear, edges untrimmed, a couple of very faint spots to flyleaf, ownership inscription of Johannes C. Andersen to flyleaf (see below), very good

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